Review: The Martian - Andy Weir
Well, this book was all anyone ever talked about a few months back. So naturally I decided to read it. It was also turned into a movie and that had rave reviews as well. I haven’t seen the movie and don’t know if I will. The book is about Mark Watney, an astronaut, who due to a number of unfortunate events gets stranded alone on Mars when the rest of his crew leave him behind, thinking he has died. However, he has not died and he sets about trying to survive on Mars until the next mission can pick him up. In four years time. As he has no way of communicating with Earth or his comrades on their spaceship, he is pretty much left to his own devices. He sets about starting to figure out how to stretch 30 days of supplies to last four years. Needless to say this takes some “outside-of-the-box” thinking and it is interesting to see what he comes up with. Unfortunately for me, I am very much out of my depth when it comes to pretty much any science, so when he explained all o...